The Next Generation

Film/Video

As part of the Wexner Center’s 25th anniversary, The Box is dedicating the entire year of programming to work produced in the Film/Video Studio. Screenings in this free exhibition space for video, located just across from the Wexner Center Store, run continuously seven days a week, the same hours as our ticket office (Mon–Wed: 9 AM–6 PM; Thu–Fri: 9 AM–8 PM; Sat: 10 AM–8 PM; Sun: 11 AM–6 PM).

Tue, Dec 1, 2009–Thu, Dec 31, 2009

Here’s your chance to see some of the freshest art around. The Box features works by the next generation of Ohio filmmakers and video artists throughout this month to complement the Zoom festival.

Selected for the youth division of last May’s Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase 2009, the varied pieces include animations, dramatic narratives, and experimental projects by artists ages 8 to 18. (app. 15 mins., video)

A well-known journalist gets a mysterious phone message while on the job in Moscow. Everything the caller tells her somehow comes true; if she doesn’t follow the directions, terrorists will blow up the American Embassy. But the real question is: who is the person leaving the voicemails? This short film was conceived, shot, and edited for a seven-day video competition.

A seeming normal bull is sleeping in the fields until he hears a cry for help. Wonderbull takes action! This is the first piece the artist created for an animation class.

Freedom of Thought, 2009, 2 mins., 55 secs.

Ashley Nicol Knotts, age 18, St. ParisBowling Green State University

Inspired by My Morning Jacket’s song “Gideon,” this video is an allegorical piece about suppression of thought through fear and social pressure. The plot is open to the viewer’s interpretation of the main character’s voyage, as it merges with images and bits of lyrics from the song.

This video is a antismoking rap in which the lyrics and beat are original creations of the participants. All of the facts are true and presented in ways in which people will easily remember the dangers of smoking.